[58] Dionysus. A surname of Bacchus.
[59] Libation. Wine poured as an offering to the gods.
[60] Vestibulum. The space in front of the house-door (fores) which in the time of the imperial government was frequently covered with a portico.
[61] Adopted Daughter. The adoption of a child in ancient Rome was regulated by very strict laws. Adoption in its narrower sense (adoptio) extended to persons who were still under paternal authority; with self-dependent persons the so-called arrogatio took place. With women this last form was entirely excluded.
[62] Atrium. From the door of the house a narrow passage (ostium) led to the first inner court, the atrium, so-called because this space, where the hearth originally was, was blackened by the smoke (ater). The atrium, which in the more ancient Roman houses possessed the character of a room with a comparatively small opening in the roof, and afterwards resembled a court-yard, was at first the central point of family life, the sitting-room, where the industrious house-keeper sat enthroned among her slaves. When republican simplicity gave way to luxury, the atrium became the hall devoted to the reception of guests, and domestic life was confined to the more retired apartments.
[63] Triclinium, (triple couch) really the sofa on which three, and sometimes even more persons reclined at table; the name was also given to the dining-room itself, which comprised the second inner court-yard, the so-called peristyle or cavaedium.
[64] Cimbrian Peninsula, now called Jutland.
[65] Guttoni. A German race on the lower Vistula.
[66] Aestui. A German race living on the coast of Revel.
[67] Scandii. Inhabitants of southern Sweden.